Old Style Evie/Why "gods" are bullshit.

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Thanks very much Evie It sounds like you got the point I was driving at. A being in charge of our universe could also be sort of omnipotent regarding it in that it could fiddle with the reality however it wanted, and sort of omniscient in that it could just ask for readouts about anything from the simulator. The fact it's even being run suggests the eventual outcomes are not already known however to this being.

But take a step back, and this being can be nothing special. No more special than us screwing about with our own computer program, blissfully unaware that it is somehow manfesting into its own reality.

Is the imagination in some sense real? Well, the language is incredibly tricky. My own position, ultimately, is that things are as real as they appear to be, to any particular observer. So the imagination is as real as the output the brain gives about the (presumed) objective reality, it's just the mind "knows" one is being generated internally and one is a result of stimuli.